Oh look a Daily Mail / Express refugee
Tired old "its my money" claim
Never hear of folk moaning that the winter fuel allowance is non means tested i.e. you could be sitting on mult millions of pounds and still receive it (and quite a few aged celebrities receive it and have commented on how ridiculous it is and how hard it to opt out)
DWP from personal experience will do EVERYTHING they can to refuse a claim, even when you have a cast iron diagnosis and problems that someone with NO medical training can see. Worse still they repeatedly ignore their own guidelines and criteria.
They also have spend myriads more money chasing "disability benefit fraud" when the reality was it was statistically insignificant (well below 1% of all claims) and the vast majority of it was DWP mistakes. So they've fallen back on "its the principle of it"
Its long overdue to be split back up, its too large and too able to lobby politicians.
Put it back to the Dept of Pensions, Dept of Work / Employment and Dept of Social Security.
Only then you might get some sense
They probably have a "monkey" they put on staffer's desks who authorise a claim, like the border agency did for anyone who approved an asylum claim.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
